One-Eyed Richmond Forum
Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: pmac21 on June 20, 2020, 03:41:55 PM
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Looks like the season is in doubt again as a player tests positive to corona.
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Given our form the end of the season now would be a blessing
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Essendon player Connor
McKenzie McKenna
I can see the irony here
Essendon
Gil doing a presser at 4pm
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Pee'd off to Ireland and only came back recently - anyone know if he has been in isolation. If not that its for this season.
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Gil confirmed it's Connor McKenna. He had 5 negative tests since returning from Ireland before the latest positive tests.
Gil also said as a result the Essendon vs Melbourne game has been postponed.
McKenna is asymptomatic so without the testing the AFL is doing he would've gone under the radar. No other player is positive. So it's assumed he caught it after returning to Oz and from an outside source.
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McLachlan said the AFL fixture team would now work through when the game would be rescheduled.
“Whether we compress the season or have a bye, we are working through that,” he said.
“That’s why we had a rolling stuff fixture, shorter quarters.
“We have the flexibility.”
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2020-covid19-coronavirus-updates-essendon-conor-mckenna-covid19-test-player/news-story/effa64ddb45240bf6f8450d0f76d1085
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AFL bans contact training for large groups
By Jake Niall
The Age
June 22, 2020 — 2.32pm
The AFL has banned contact training in large groups for the next four weeks in the wake of the positive COVID-19 test to Essendon's Conor McKenna.
The league on Monday decided to bar contact training in sessions where the whole list is involved. However, clubs will be allowed to hold contact training with small groups of up to nine players.
The entire list can still train together with ball movement, but no contact is allowed.
The limits on contact training will be reviewed on July 20.
Club football bosses were told at a meeting with the AFL early on Monday afternoon.
The ban is an indication of the compromises the AFL has to make during the pandemic in order to keep playing and fulfil its broadcast obligations.
The AFL has reminded clubs to be strategic in the way they divide their players into smaller training groups, to ensure they do not lose all of their best defenders, forward or midfielders should one small group have to be isolated.
The league also reiterated to clubs that games would likely go ahead even if clubs lost several players, effectively placing the onus on clubs to keep their players COVID-free by following protocols.
Essendon have forwarded records of McKenna's close contacts to the Department of Health and Human Services and given DHHS very comprehensive records of his movements and contacts within the football department.
MORE TO COME
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/afl-bans-contact-training-for-large-groups-20200622-p55501.html
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Had already lost a lot of interest in this season, and the little I have left is going fast.
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Shows the hypocrisy at Afl house player tested positive yet cant go this and that at training yet in a game it's perfectly normal bunch of clowns running this game all about $$$$ and image.
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I’ve already heard some stuff with what the players are really getting up to from sources at the scene.
Looks like not all of the young blokes have taken this COVID isolation thing seriously.
Maybe the AFL should just put in a rule that any player that tests positive for not following the rules then that team forfeits the four points. You’d think that will make all the players take it more seriously.
....simples.
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Speaking on Footy Classified, Caroline Wilson revealed that up to five of McKenna's teammates could be forced to quarantine for a two-week period, with the players to be officially named on Tuesday morning.
Wilson also added that McKenna is only likely to receive a minor suspension for breaching the AFL's COVID-19 protocols.
https://wwos.nine.com.au/afl/essendon-vs-carlton-round-4-clash-set-to-go-ahead-despite-conor-mckenna-coronavirus-quarantine/07b4db74-68ad-47e1-be34-d22bf5ec940e
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They should rub him out for the season. Its always bloody essendon bringing the game into disrepute.
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James Stewart is only other Bomber considered to be a close contact to McKenna.
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/sport/afl/only-one-other-bomber-deemed-close-contact-of-mckenna-players-told-20200623-p55580.html
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James Stewart is only other Bomber considered to be a close contact to McKenna.
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/sport/afl/only-one-other-bomber-deemed-close-contact-of-mckenna-players-told-20200623-p55580.html
So all those players that touched the same balls and used the same gym equipment are not? How the f does the Health department expect anyone to take isolation seriously when they turn a blind eye to this at the AFL's request?
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McKenna's latest coronavirus test has come back negative.
https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/essendon-star-conor-mckenna-returns-negative-result-in-latest-coronavirus-test/news-story/b81b9c458705863ba9b34afc35eb82db
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So we can’t really trust the corona tests then :rollin
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:bow :bow what an accurate health system the afl and government are running.
Probably have people running around thinking they have covid and vice versa
shambles.
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:bow :bow what an accurate health system the afl and government are running.
Probably have people running around thinking they have covid and vice versa
shambles.
If it wasnt serious it would be funny
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Really beyond a joke how sporting codes a still playing in Australia especially Victoria cases increasing day by day a player infected now and now the testing debacle .The country was warned were not out of the woods and a secondary wave yet sport is more important. Poor decision the premier number one who gave the go ahead and these clowns at afl house.
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Not really sport is a piece of the economy as well and it was always going to be a trade off between keeping everyone safe and keeping as much of the economy going as possible
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Conor McKenna has been suspended for one match for breaching the AFL’s COVID-19 rules, Sportsday co-host Sam McClure has revealed.
But in good news for Essendon, McKenna served that suspension on the weekend and will be available for selection again once he has completed his second round of 14 days of quarantine.
He could play against Collingwood on Friday night.
McKenna tested positive to the coronavirus earlier this month.
While his movements were being traced, it emerged he’d visited an open house inspection and visited his former host family.
AFL boss Gillon McLachlan described McKenna’s breaches as “minor”.
https://www.3aw.com.au/conor-mckenna-handed-covid-19-sanction-from-afl/
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AFL boss Gillon McLachlan described McKenna’s breaches as “minor”.
https://www.3aw.com.au/conor-mckenna-handed-covid-19-sanction-from-afl/
Nope
Sorry Gil, it is this sort of attitude across the community that is reason we are now in this mess
:banghead